Notes from a solo builder shipping AI tools for authors.
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3 products live · 16 posts in the last 30 days · last shipped Jul 18
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Drippery
Live MVP
Email drip series for indie writers. Plain HTML, no bloat.
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Archive Concierge
Live
An AI librarian for your blog archive. Surfaces the right posts for the right reader.
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Subhook
Public beta
Inbound email orchestration for writers who outgrew Zapier.
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Reel Pipeline
Live · Gumroad · $39
Turn your Substack or Medium article into a 9:16 AI reel. Local-first, your stack, your GPU.
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Reel Pipeline Kit Pro
Live · Gumroad · $79
Your articles become reels while you sleep. Queue five at night, wake up to five reels and a Telegram ping.
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Faceless Channel OS
Live · Gumroad · $39
You solved the hard part — your videos exist. This is the machine that publishes them every day.
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Latest writing
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Jul 18, 2026 · SubstackEight Video Engines, One Skeleton
How my history channel turns one Monday coffee into a week of reels, and the budget rule that makes it work
Jul 16, 2026 · MediumMy app records its own tutorials now
Eight faceless walkthroughs, a browser that films itself clicking, and the fifteen lines that keep the captions honest.
Jul 15, 2026 · MediumI Restart My Node.js App Every 2 Days. Here's the One Line That Stops the Retry Loop.
A 50-line self-restart cron, the non-obvious bug it almost shipped with, and why mitigation beats diagnosis when you only have evening…
About
One person, a workshop of products, building in public.
I'm Daniel Rusnok — a software engineer for the last decade. The last few months I've been shipping side-tools after my day job. Drippery and Archive Concierge are live; Subhook is in public beta; Reel Pipeline, Reel Pipeline Kit Pro, and Faceless Channel OS are live on Gumroad. Each one started because I saw a problem and wanted to solve it my own way.
Workshop stack: Next.js 16, Drizzle, Postgres, Tailwind v4, deployed on Fly.io. Every product here is built AI-first — Claude Code with custom skills, hooks, and mem0 do the heavy lifting, and the Anthropic SDK powers what the apps need at runtime.
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